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What a buyer sees

F TATE AND SONS LIMITED

Plant propagation · Ripon · 04585389

31staff · FY2026
24years trading
60oldest owner on file
£696kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

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We size companies from the rest of the balance sheet. For this one, what you have filed does not narrow it to anything worth quoting, and we would rather say so than put a number here. That is the position every buyer looking at you is in, and they price uncertainty rather than ask about it.

What your filings show moving

Staff31
202224 → 312026
Cash at bank£696k
2022£321k → £696k2026

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£55,828£315,689£848,405
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
193581
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
143273
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1253136

Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.

What a buyer would ask 2

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.

What a buyer would like 3

  • 24 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 28 to 31Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 60since 2016
  • 53since 2020

Directors

  • 60since 2002
  • since 2002
  • 33since 2015
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2026-01-312026-09-10not filed31£696k
2024-01-31—not filed28£510k
2023-01-31—not filed28£409k
2022-01-31—not filed24£321k

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.